15. READ: COLOSSIANS 1:24-29
b. Why do we proclaim Jesus?
Answer: God's children proclaim Jesus by admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ, (verse 28).
In Matthew 5:48 Jesus tells us, "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
This perfection in each of us is perfection in Christ's church--a holy people--a holy church:
Ephesians 5:25-28: "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word, and to present her to Himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless."